broken partition layout with Thinkpad predesktop area
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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parted (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Installed Hoary preview i386 last night. Installation went smoothly, operating
system detection worked (detected WinXP and previous Fedora install). Grub
installed to /dev/hda MBR. On reboot, the Thinkpad (R40) BIOS complained that
the partition layout was invalid and refused to boot. On-screen BIOS prompt
suggested disabling the 'Pre-desktop area' (where the XP factory image is / was
stored), which I did in BIOS setup, and that worked. I've never had to do that
before though, and have installed debian, Fedora, and FreeBSD using both Grub
and Lilo. I'm guessing the pre-desktop area is now gone, but haven't tried
reenabling it incase I lose data.
The new partition layout is (on a 40 gig drive):
/dev/hda1 (boot) 1 15510 NTFS
/dev/hda2 15511 43446 Linux (FC3 /)
/dev/hda3 43446 71400 Extended
/dev/hda5 70089 71398 Swap
/dev/hda6 43446 71400 Linux (Hoary /)
/dev/hda7 67416 70078 Linux (Hoary /var)
Other information - partitions 1,2,3 are listed as 'not end[ing] on cylinder
boundary' by fdisk. This I blame on the FreeBSD 5.2 partitioner with which I
partitioned the drive previously. Previously, /dev/hda3 was a BSD slice and I
used fdisk from Fedora to repartition to the current arrangement.
So apart from that scare, everything's fine for me but I wouldn't want to put
other users through the stress.
Changed in parted: | |
assignee: | kamion → nobody |
It seems much more likely to be a parted issue than a grub issue. Unfortunately,
nobody on the net seems to know the answer to this one ...